Yes, I’ve noted that from last time. I can’t help looking though.
In idle moments I would email him images of some of my vintage pile… amused to see how much he would low ball me 
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Holy fuck, anyone after some cheap WE 300b valves you could buy this amp stick in some old 300b and sell it for £2500
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Very nice, with original high sensitivity input/driver stage
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@thebiglebowski and @sjs
Do you think it would work with the washing machines.
I moved on my Almarro as the bass wasn’t tight enough
It worked very well with my Direkts and I think the singing fridges are higher sensitivity.
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When I had the 2 way Direkts the Almarro was great but with the 3 ways it didn’t grip the bass tightly enough.
The BP will have a much punchier bass than the Almarro’s
Given the sensitivity of the fridges, it would be best to have it converted to the low sensitivity 6S45PI input/driver, then I think it would work v nicely. An in tune BP amp can be really very nice, and far more punchy and gutsy than most SE triode amps in my experience.
I am using a PSE 300B amp with dual choke input supplies with my fridges, which is a similar type of approach, but it is currently too sensitive and I am meaning to change the input/driver at some point.
I fridges are bass reflex, with three big ports on the bottom, and I suspect there is a good chance they were tuned for SS amps or low impedance valve amps with feedback. SE amp without feedback will have a higher output impedance which could affect the LF roll off. Try plugging the centre ports with a rolled up towel, and see if you like it.
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Im tempted.
£2k for a used Io2 
Nah.
Not ebay, but interesting for tightwads like me
That does look interesting.
bit of a leap of faith to pay upfront (if I understand correctly), and I think the projected shipping date is ambitious, but the design looks decent.
Interesting yes but the Velvet Vortex that Tim (Spider) sells can clean three LPs at a time. Ok so there’s no drying function but if you’re not in an immediate hurry to hear your freshly cleaned records I think it’s a better solution.
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I agree, and if you have something that can be used as a drying rack (I’ve got an old Knosti, but I bet a dish rack would do just as well) you can easily clean another set of 3 records in the time that 1 record is being blow dried in the other machine.
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I have one of those beauties, agree, a little more faff but very good value for money. My plan is over Christmas to get it up and running again.
Noise is the big issue in my house, my boss has just bought a ‘degritter’, which is quiet, but for 8x price it bloody well should be!
OK, 7-10 mins to clean and dry a record then you have to refill the reservoir for EVERY RECORD.
Smaller amount of water and clean every time might balance out the faff and it looks great but one at a time isn’t fast enough unless it’s silent and you can clean the next record whilst you play
Tim’s is great and I use it a lot but has to be in it’s own room due to noise
I assumed me any ultrasonic solution would be the same re noise though
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I suppose you could build some kind of casing and slotted lid which would reduce the noise, but generally I’ve been setting it to 8 minutes, putting 3 records in and wandering off to do something else. Noise drove the animals nuts though.
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